Sex and relationship violence. Sexual assault disproportionately and systematically targets women: women are three times more likely than men to be assaulted, while 95 percent of sex offenders are men; one in five American women college students experiences sexual assault or attempted sexual assault during college.6 Globally, men who rape women report that their primary motivation is the basic belief that they have a right to a woman’s body, regardless of how she feels about it, a belief termed “sexual entitlement” in the research.7 Women are held responsible for being assaulted based on how
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